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You're arguing that tests for intellectual ability aren't perfect, and they're therefore useless. This is a bad argument.

• politician 5y ago
  It's the same argument as for eliminating TAG programs: that no one should be accelerated because not everyone is accelerated. This seems like a distressingly common construction. Is it a logical fallacy? Does it have a name?
  • EEBio 5y ago
    False dillema or false dichotomy.[0] These arguments are built on the apparent either-or black-and-white setup, while in the reality, a range of possibilities exists. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
  • cutemonster 5y ago
    > Does it have a name? The word "jealousy" comes to my mind Maybe sometimes feelings, not logic underlies the arguments? And any logics was made up afterwards